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PIA18534: Microspine Grippers

This artist's concept shows a robot with legs that have microspine grippers, which could potentially explore a rocky surface, such as an asteroid, in microgravity.

Mission:	NASA's Flight Opportunities Program
Product Size:	3000 x 2250 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA18534.tif (20.26 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA18534.jpg (1.024 MB)

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This artist's concept shows a robot with legs that have microspine grippers, which could potentially explore a rocky surface, such as an asteroid, in microgravity.

NASA manages the Flight Opportunities manifest, matching payloads with flights, and will pay for payload integration and the flight costs for the selected payloads. No funds are provided for the development of these payloads.

The Flight Opportunities Program, part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, is managed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, manages the solicitation and selection of technologies to be tested and demonstrated on commercial flight vehicles.

For more information on the Flight Opportunities program, visit http://flightopportunities.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2014-07-10